When a “Golden Opportunity” to Bribe Arises, It’s Hard to Pass Up

Identity of man found dead on Saddleworth Moor confirmed

Violations of energy conservation in the early universe may explain dark energy

If you like sick jokes, maybe it’s because you’re just so smart

Doctors save Canadian woman’s life by removing her lungs for six days

Pictures: The Eldfell Eruption of 1973

The Untold Story of the Bastille Day Attacker

There used to be 4 billion American chestnut trees, but they all disappeared

Video: Riding Light: A real-time journey of a photon from the sun to Jupiter

Cassini spies Daphnis making waves in the rings of Saturn

Photo: Gustave Eiffel’s “secret” apartment in his famous Paris tower

What’s the Speed of Dark?

My unhappy 48 hours as an astronaut

The Parasite That Compels Other Parasites to Shove Their Heads Into Holes

Five finalists will try to land a spacecraft on the Moon this year to win the Google Lunar X Prize

One Man’s Daring Escape from Mao’s Darkest Prison

The Rise, Fall, and Lonely Death of Benny Hill

How insects like bumblebees do so much with tiny brains

Organisms created with synthetic DNA pave way for entirely new life forms

Astronomers hope to soon spot ‘Peggy’, an object in Saturn’s rings they know exists but can’t quite see

The Story of America’s Most Extreme Race Car

This explorer discovered human time warp by living in a cave

Murderous Manila: On the government-sanctioned killing of suspected drug dealers

A Comprehensive Map of American Lynchings: a new visualization of racial violence in the Jim Crow era

First baby born using 3-parent technique to treat infertility

Blood-repellent materials: A new approach to medical implants

WW2 German Ace Stumbled Across a Crippled B-17 and Escorted It Home

Dividing Droplets Could Explain Life’s Origin

Scientists develop molecule that reverses antibiotic resistance

Lots of corpse flowers bloomed in 2016 and nobody knows why

The 1986 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year was also one of the nation’s most prolific drug runners

Timeline: Organisms that have had their genomes sequenced

A Japanese spacecraft has spotted a massive gravity wave in Venus’ atmosphere

I Watched Neil deGrasse Tyson Take On a Science Skeptic

The Chef of the Future Makes Only One Dish

The Lincoln Administration Turned Down a Chance to Populate the United States With Elephants

Who Decides Who Counts as Native American?

Carbon nanotube transistors push up against quantum uncertainty limits

Virtual Autopsies Help Shed Light on Possible Child Abuse

The search for the creator of the botnet that made most of the Internet unusable for a day last October

All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine

The story of a 29-year investigation into the mysterious murder of Native American activist Julian Pierce

The Magical Fruit: Are heat- and drought-resistant tepary beans the future of food?

Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years alone

The D.B. Cooper case baffled investigators for decades. Now, scientists have a new theory.

Mars Rover Curiosity Examines Possible Mud Cracks

Study: Parents talking to kids about science and math can substantially increase competency and STEM career interest

The Best Kitchen Gadget of the 1600s Was a Small, Short-Legged Dog

Listen with your eyes: one in five of us may ‘hear’ flashes of light

This unique architectural idea was medieval India’s ingenious answer to perennial water shortage

Martin Luther King Jr. was decades ahead of his time in advocating for a universal basic income

Plants can see, hear and smell – and respond

A Lot of What Is Known about Pirates Is Not True, and a Lot of What Is True Is Not Known

This Brave Pilot Climbed Out On To The Wing Of His Stricken Bomber At 13,000 Feet

Study: Caffeine may counter age-related inflammation

Japan just tried to launch the world’s smallest orbital rocket

When picky eating becomes an affliction

The surprising place where WWII agents learnt to fight Nazis

The Web Divided: Will machine translation ever bring us together?

An ambitious new study put infants into an MRI machine to reveal how the mind gets built